Conference Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Smart camera networks are becoming a fundamental piece of our intelligent cities, buildings and homes, progressively inserting themselves into our lives. From smart surveillance systems composed of a multitude of smart camera nodes to small wearable cameras able to render a visual log of our daily experience, these devices interact with each other and with a wealth of other smart things, and of course the internet. Their rapid development is possible thanks to the convergence of several technologies. From advanced image sensors and vision chips to embedded vision systems capable of efficient feature extraction, image encoding and wireless transmission of the relevant visual content: This technology opens the door to new application domains, where

video analytics and the extraction of semantic information from the scene is performed in a distributed fashion, implementing a new type of cooperative and/or collaborative vision.

The 11th edition of the ACM International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC) is the appropriate forum to discuss recent advances and open issues in these topics. After the successful events celebrated in Paris (2016), Seville (2015), Venice (2014), Palm Springs (2013), Hong Kong (2012), Ghent (2011), Atlanta (2010), Como (2009), Stanford (2008) and Vienna (2007), this year ICDSC will come back to Stanford University in California. Papers are invited in the following and related areas:

Smart image sensors and vision chips

• Circuits and systems for image sensing

• Parallel processing hardware

• HW/SW co-design for embedded vision

• Reconfigurable vision processing architectures

• High-performance image sensors

• Neuromorphic cameras and networks

• Embedded deep learning cameras

Mobile Vision

• Mobile applications

• Crowdsourcing

• Sensing for mixed/augmented reality

• Structure-from-motion in mobile devices

• Visual landmark localization

• Collective object recognition

Smart cameras and network architectures

• Camera system designs and architectures

• Image sensing/processing for smart cameras

• Architectures for camera networks

• Embedded vision programming

• Distributed video coding

• Self-reconfiguring camera networks

• Wireless and mobile image sensor networks

• Topology discovery

• Context-aware networks

Emerging applications

• Smart cameras as IoT devices

• Process splitting in camera vs cloud

• Vision-based smart environments

• Smart camera networks for healthcare and surgery room

• Virtual reality and augmented reality

• Position discovery and middleware apps

• Combining smart cameras with semantic information

• Smart cities and smart cameras

Distributed computer vision

• Distributed video analytics

• Resource management and task allocation

• Multi-sensor data aggregation

• Collaborative extraction, information fusion

• Surveillance and tracking applications

• Social media and big data

3D and robotics

• 3D reconstruction of everything

• Driver assistance, autonomous driving

• Active vision

• Social robots

• Drone distributed smart cameras

Double blind review: ICDSC reviewing is double blind. Do not include any author information such as name and affiliations in the paper. As with the previous editions, ICDSC 2017 will feature a Ph.D. Forum and a Demo Session.

Proceedings will be published at ACM DL. Authors of high-quality papers will be invited to extend their work and submit it for a special issue in a JCR- indexed journal. More information available at the conference website: